Monthly Archives: January 2014

How much is a good job worth to you? $100? $400? Well for some people it’s a lot more than that, chum. For these people, nothing less than a fully connected, programmable, wireless tool will do. And that’s where this puppy comes in.

Forgotify has got to be one of the most splendid new ideas we’ve seen to date in the music arena. The site basically offers everyone the chance to listen to any of the 4 million songs which have not been listened to at all on Spotify.

Here’s a sign of the times. E-Car Club is the first electric car club to open up, offering hourly or daily hire of any of a small range of electric cars. The first locations are all based around London in the UK, and so far there’s not many to choose from, but the company has big plans.

I’m a little worried about raving over this little trick I learned a couple of days ago. Mostly because I know some folks are going to call me stupid for not knowing about it before. So I apologize in advance to the experts, but this simple hack is going to save me so much time, and hopefully others too, that I’m not going to worry about their scorn.

It’s late at night and pitch-black throughout the house… and Mother Nature is calling. Do you heed the call and brave the darkness or suffer the consequences when the sun comes up? It’s not a worry with a familiar police box to light your way.

There are a lot of great iPhone covers on the market but the vast majority sacrifice protection for convenience by allowing the touchscreen to remain exposed. This cover keeps things convenient while also keeping the screen covered.

Well they said it would come, and it certainly seems to be. And faster than we imagined. Science fiction movies have been featuring flying cameras (usually as evil surveillance tools) for the longest time, but now an innovative company is about to release something for real.

Our growing reliance on our mobile phones is becoming something of a standing joke. We laugh as people refuse to put them down to eat, we chuckle as our conversations are stopped mid-flow by an incoming text. But just how serious is the problem of ‘smartphone slavery’? Should we be worried?

Apparently if you start wearing a set of Sennheiser Momentum On-Air headphones, life will go well with you, fluffy clouds will appear and your true love will emerge from the mists on the back of a glistening unicorn. Or something. Yep, February 14th is coming up and we’re starting to get all the typical marketing requests as every year.

How often has this happened? You stay up until the wee hours of the morning, working on an important assignment in MS Office. Later, when you’re out and about, you think of something new to add but your smartphone doesn’t have Office on it. What to do?

The written word is a powerful tool. Writers can make people feel a wide variety of emotion using nothing more than words that tap into a reader’s imagination… but what if the reader didn’t have to use their imagination? What if the book actually made the reader feel what the characters in a book were feeling?

Now you can have tons of fun with LEGO bricks without it looking like a brightly-colored brick explosion occurred in your home… and you don’t have to worry about stepping on any of those painful buggers with bare feet.

You don’t have to be a nutcase to feel that the world is going surveillance crazy. Everywhere you look there’s yet another report of listening, tracking, spooks and dodgy goings on happening in our homes and offices. But in case you’re not convinced, check out this little doozy.

There’s a lot of talk about biometric fingerprint scanning on smartphones nowadays, spurred of course by Apple’s use of the technology on its flagship iPhone 5S. Well now Android users can feel biometrically enhanced as well, thanks to the introduction of a new free app from Alabama based DFT Inc.

Regular readers may remember that we raved about the original OSO DashGrip back last year, and as our video review shows we were really impressed with the sticking capabilities of the product and the ease of use. Well the company has not stood still, and the new model, the OSO DashGrip Ex has added an extremely cool feature to make it even easier to use.